CE5-R3: IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION

NOTE:
1.
2.

Answer question 1 and any FOUR questions from 2 to 7.

Parts of the same question should be answered together and in the same
sequence.

Time: 3 Hours
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)

2.
a)

b)

Total Marks: 100

Explain the simple image model. How the basic nature of image is characterized by the
two components, called illumination and reflectance components.
What is the fundamental difference between spatial and frequency domain techniques
used for enhancing an image? Explain gray-level transformation functions for contrast
enhancement.
Explain how 2D Fourier transform and its inverse are used to enhance an image in
frequency domain.
What do you understand by convolution? Explain briefly the properties of convolution.
What do understand by boundary extraction? Also briefly explain the extraction of
connected components in an image.
Describe steps involved in JPEG compression.
What do you understand by geometric transformation with respect to image
pre-processing? Explain with examples.
(7x4)
Explain briefly following hardware oriented models.
i)
RGB
ii)
CMY
iii)
YIQ
Explain homomorphic filtering.
(10+8)

3.
a)
b)
c)

4.
a)
b)

5.
a)
b)

What do you understand by Histogram equalization? Also explain the Histograms

corresponding to four basic image types. (Dark, Bright, Low-Contrast and HighContrast)
What do you understand by region merging segmentation scheme? Explain region
merging algorithm steps in brief.
For what purpose Hit-or-Miss transformation is used in morphological image
processing? Briefly explain Hit-or-Miss transformation.
(6+6+6)
Why high pass filtering is used to enhance an image? Explain ideal filter and butterworth
filter.
Explain the important morphological operations: Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing
in detail. How can these be used in obtaining skeleton of an image?
(8+10)
What is the difference between spatial filtering and spatial filters? For what purpose
smoothing filters are used in image enhancement phase? Explain Lowpass spatial
filtering.
Why is Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) useful in image filtering?

CE5-R3

Page 1 of 2

January, 2007

c)

Explain the basic principle of stereo vision. Also explain the geometry of the system with
two cameras (epipolar geometry in stereopsis).
(4+8+6)

CE5-R3

Page 2 of 2

January, 2007

6.
a)
b)
c)
7.
a)
b)
c)

What is the basic concept in Hough transform?

How is Hough transform used in line detection?
What is the use of parametric space in detection of circles using Hough transform?
(6+8+4)
Write short notes on:
Run length coding for image compression
Edge Detection
Difficulties in 3D vision using intensity images as input
(6+6+6)

CE5-R3

Page 3 of 2

January, 2007